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This issue seemed a bit weaker compared to issue #1 and #2. Guess I was running light on ideas but not on record review commitments so had to crank it out!

Apocalypse Hope

This essay is about humanity’s amazing ability to hope against hope that growing problems like global warming, oil shortages, terrorism etc. will just go away if we pretend they don’t exist. I wrote this ten years ago and only now are we seeing even the slightest effort to combat it but like this essay says, it’s just too late to prevent dire consequences.

The Underground

This is about the repeating cycle of trends, how they start with a sub group trying to be “different” and are then adopted by the mainstream, forcing the original group to adapt to stay “different” while companies, particularly fashion and music, profit from this repeating cycle by getting an endless churn of new and “different” products. Yeah underground!

sXe Soapbox

This is about straight edge and the high horse they rode in on. Not sure if it’s still like this but it seemed like every straight edge kid and their mom was preaching why they were better than the rest of us. Just gets tiring hearing lectures like that. If I wanted that I’d go to church, preferably Catholic for the extra dose of guilt.

Wal-Mart
Kind of missed the boat on this one. Instead of focusing on how destructive Wal-Mart is for the communities they parasitically drain the tax base from with lower wages and zero healthcare, I focused on how hard it is to find stuff in those big ass stores. Kind of dumb.

Homophobe

An anti-homophobic rant. This was right when gay bashing was becoming a national trend so I thought it was a good time to address this issue.

Existentialism

This one is basically an exposition on the existentialist point of view of man’s place in the universe. Rather than being some divine creation moved by the hand of an omnipotent deity, we are just elaborate cases for our genes to multiply in a world created and sustained by random events, destined to return our carbon to the earth for some other life form to re-use.

American Terrorism
A short one about the growing occurence of domestic terrorism at the time and its link to discontent with the current government. While not condoning terrorism, I do acknowledge the fact that any change in government is usually brought about violently. From the Roman Empire to the French Revolution to the birth of our own country, it's not like any civilization has legislated their way to a new form of government/leadership. Of course now we have massive internally focused espionage/wire tap programs aimed at rooting out "terrorists" and prosecuting them with unconstitutional tribunals and military excercises in Oakland to train for supressing domestic rebellions so, even though it's written into the Declaration of Independence that we should throw off the shackles of any corrupt government, good luck changing this one!